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enWhite House: Higher wages needed to make up for stagnationhttp://onlineathens.com/national-news/2015-02-19/white-house-higher-wages-needed-make-stagnation
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's top economists say that even as the U.S. has managed to kick start a lasting and growing recovery, modest wage gains are far from making up for decades of paycheck stagnation for middle-class workers.</p>
<p>The White House, in its annual report to Congress, also warns that despite the U.S. relative economic strength, slowdowns abroad still pose dangers at home.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that progress against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will allow the U.S. to withdraw nearly all American troops sent to Liberia last fall.</p>
<p>But he said the mission was not over, and he set an ambitious goal of eliminating the disease.</p>
<p>“We have risen to the challenge,” he said at the White House. “Our focus now is getting to zero.”</p>
<p>Surrounded by military responders and Ebola survivors, the president heralded a “new phase in the fight” against Ebola.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON | They call it the State of the Union address. But presidents spend more time laying out their to-do lists and beseeching Congress, mostly unsuccessfully, to approve a wish list of legislative proposals. The actual condition of the country gets short shrift.</p>
<p>So what is the state of the nation? Some trend lines give a sense of how the United States is doing and where its people are headed. As things change, some stay surprisingly the same.</p>
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<p>THE ECONOMY AND ITS MOJO</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation's Ebola response as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a cruise ship at sea and multiple airline flights.<br /></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is ramping up its response to the Ebola crisis after a second Dallas nurse became ill and it was disclosed that she had been cleared to fly a day before her diagnosis.<br /><br />While Ebola patients are not considered contagious until they have symptoms and only two persons have been known to contract the disease in the U.S., the revelations Wednesday raised new alarms about whether hospitals and the public health system are equipped to handle the deadly disease.<br /></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting a manufacturing focus on his revived economic message, calling attention to industrial gains that have helped restore some higher-wage jobs during the recovery from the Great Recession.<br /></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — There were about 30, all Mexican nationals desperate to avoid deportations that would separate them from their families. Living in Illinois, they appealed for help from their new U.S. senator, Barack Obama.<br /><br />He turned them down.<br /><br />It was one of the first times Obama could have used the power of his office to help defer the removal of immigrants who were in the United States illegally. Eight years later, with his powers magnified as president, such a decision is upon him again, this time with the status of millions of immigrants at stake.<br /></p>
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<p>ATLANTA (AP) — Under pressure to ramp up the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, President Barack Obama is ordering 3,000 U.S. military personnel to West Africa amid worries that the financial and human cost of the outbreak is growing exponentially in a region overwhelmed by the deadly virus.<br /><br />The influx is part of a heightened U.S. role that will include erecting new treatment and isolation facilities, training health care workers and boosting communications and transportation support, U.S. officials said.<br /></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Boosted by recent economic gains, President Barack Obama is sounding more bullish about the nation's recovery from the Great Recession and the White House is encouraging Democrats to show similar optimism as they head into the November mid-term elections.<br /><br />"There are reasons to feel good about the direction that we're headed," Obama declared last week.<br /></p>
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<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama says "America does not forget" and is vowing justice for the murder of an American journalist.<br /><br />The president said the country continues to grieve James Foley, killed last week by Islamic State militants.<br /><br />Obama called the killers "barbaric terrorists." He signaled that a response may take some time.<br /><br />He said — quote — "Rooting out a cancer like ISIL won't be easy and it won't be quick."<br /><br />But he said America is patient and "justice will be done."<br /></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Three months after a veterans' health care scandal rocked his administration, President Barack Obama is taking executive action to improve the mental well-being of veterans. The president was to announce his initiatives during an appearance before the American Legion National Convention that is fraught with midterm politics.<br /><br />The president's address to the legionnaires Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the latest administration response to the health care lapses that led to the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki in May.<br /></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON | The White&nbsp;House says women's health will be jeopardized by a Supreme Court's decision that allows corporations with religious objections to opt out of a requirement that they cover contraceptives.</p>
<p>White&nbsp;House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that women should make personal health decisions for themselves.</p>
<p>Earnest said the White&nbsp;House is looking into how many women could be affected by the decision. He said Congress should take action to assist women affected by the decision.</p>
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<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. | Calling it the right thing to do for America's bottom line, President Barack Obama announced new steps Friday by companies, local governments and his own administration to deploy solar technology, showcasing steps to combat climate change that don't require consent from a disinclined Congress.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is seeking changes in overtime rules that will make millions of workers eligible for time-and-a-half pay for their extra work.</p>
<p>Obama intends to sign a presidential memorandum Thursday directing the Labor Department to propose rules that expand the number of employees who benefit from overtime pay.</p>
<p>The rules would be aimed at salaried workers who make more than $455 a week and those who are ineligible for overtime because they are designated as management even though their supervisory duties are minimal.</p>
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<p>TOLUCA, Mexico — President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Ukraine to avoid violence against peaceful protesters or face consequences, as the United States considered joining European partners to impose sanctions aimed at ending deadly street clashes that are sparking fears of civil war.<br /></p>
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